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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
(a) He would marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.
(b) He would rather marry his own brother.
(c) He would marry her.
(d) He would rather die than marry her.

2. With whom did Salvatore fish with on his boat in the evenings during fishing season?
(a) Assunta.
(b) His parents.
(c) One of his brothers.
(d) His sons.

3. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?
(a) None.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

4. What type of fish did Salvatore catch during fishing season?
(a) Cuttlefish.
(b) Seabass.
(c) Grouper.
(d) Cod.

5. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?
(a) They were unfortunate peasants.
(b) They were the salt of the earth.
(c) They were lazy devils.
(d) They were hard workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

2. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?

3. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?

4. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?

5. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

2. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

3. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

4. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

5. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

6. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

7. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

8. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

9. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

10. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

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